Book Review: Half Bad by Sally Green

Half Bad by Sally Green is a breathtaking debut novel about one boy's struggle for survival in a hidden society of witches.

You can't read, can't write, but you heal fast, even for a witch.

You get sick if you stay indoors after dark.

You hate White Witches but love Annalise, who is one.

You've been kept in a cage since you were fourteen.

All you've got to do is escape and find Mercury, the Black Witch who eats boys. And do that before your seventeenth birthday.

Easy.

Half Bad is the first book in the Half Life Trilogy. I got this book awhile back so this review is long overdue. It has a really interesting concept. Nathan is a Half-Black and Half-White Witch in a world where the half good are also half bad. Witches live amongst the humans but in secret of course. It blurs the lines of good and evil. My favourite quote from the book:

“The best way to find out if you can trust somebody is to trust them.”

I’m going to go into the good things first. The writing style was absolutely amazing. I cannot express in words how unique it is. Sally Green executes the story with pure perfection. She uses different perspectives as well. The most interesting one has got to be the second person. It was weird at first but it became an amazing experience. Nathan’s character development was also done really well throughout the book.

However…

I felt really distant from him and all the characters. It didn’t feel real for me because there was so much censorship from simple swear words. Because of these, I got really really bored. I actually had to stop halfway through and just pick up a different book. So in the end, it took me a whole month to finish this. I also personally thought it lacked in world building. Even though the imagery was good, I imagined the world as it’s on high fantasy world rather than a fantasy world within the human world.

Overall, I think that if you’re a true fantasy lover, you’d like this one a lot more than I did. I’d also recommend this to those of you who crave unique writing. I’m definitely still going to continue with this series though. I have a hunch that it will pick up it’s pace in the next book.

If you’ve read this one, let me know what you thought! DNF? 3 Stars? 5 Stars? If you haven’t, are you planning to read it?

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